When I was very young, I performed the part of “Old Philpot,” at Brighton, with great success, and next evening I was introduced into a club-room full of company. On hearing my name announced, one of the gentlemen laid down his pipe, and taking up his glass, said, “Here’s to your health, young gentleman, and to your father’s, too. I had the pleasure of seeing him last night in the part of ‘Philpot,’ and a very nice, clever old gentleman he is. I hope, young sir, you may one day be as good an actor as your worthy father.”--Munden. _George Philpot._ The profligate son of old Philpot, destined for Maria Wilding, but the betrothal is broken off, and Maria marries Beaufort. George wants to pass for a dashing young blade, but is made the dupe of every one. “Bubbled at play; duped by a girl to whom he paid his addresses; cudgelled by a rake; laughed at by his cronies; snubbed by his father, and despised by every one.”--Murphy, _The Citizen_ (1757 or 1761). =Philtra=, a lady of large fortune, betrothed to Bracĭdas; but, seeing the fortune of Amĭdas daily increasing, and that of Bracidas getting smaller and smaller, she forsook the declining fortune of her first lover, and attached herself to the more prosperous younger brother.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. 4 (1596). =Phineus= [_Fi´.nuce_], a blind soothsayer, who was tormented by the harpies. Whenever a meal was set before him, the harpies came and carried it off, but the Argonauts delivered him from these pests in return for his information respecting the route they were to take in order to obtain the golden fleece. (See TIRESIAS.) Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iii. 36 (1665). =Phiz=, the pseudonym of Hablot K. Browne, who illustrated the _Pickwick Papers_ (1836), _Nicholas Nickleby_, and most of Charles Dickens’s works of fiction. He also illustrated the Abbotsford edition of the _Waverley Novels_. =Phleg´rian Size=, gigantic. Phlegra, or the Phlegræ´an plain, in Macedon, is where the giants attacked the gods, and were defeated by Hercŭlés. Drayton makes the diphthong _æ_ a short _i_: Whose only love surprised those of the Phlegrian size, The Titanois, that once against high heaven durst rise. _Polyolbion_, vi. (1612). =Phobbs.= Captain and Mrs. Phobbs, with Mrs. Major Phobbs, a widow, sister-in-law to the captain, in _Lend Me Five Shillings_, by J. M. Morton. =Pho´cion=, husband of Euphra´sia, “the Grecian daughter.”--A. Murphy, _The Grecian Daughter_ (1772).